Two degree Celsius warming locks in sea level rise for thousands of years

The long reaction time of the Antarctic ice-sheet — which can take thousands of years to fully manifest its response to changes in environmental conditions — coupled with the fact that CO₂ lingers in the atmosphere for a very long time means that the warming we generate now will affect the ice sheet in ways that will be incredibly hard to undo

China’s Global Times, a newspaper considered close to the Chinese Communist Party, published an editorial on Wednesday, saying sailing a warship this close to Chinese territory could be “breach of China’s bottom line.”

Contempt for policy of welcoming floods of migrants from the Middle East and Africa. Hundreds of thousands have been arriving iin recent months, with no end in sight. Merkel’s approval ratings have fallen drastically as Germans increasingly reject her government’s seemingly incoherent immigration policy.

On its way to Port Kembla from the French port of Cherbourg 25 tonnes of waste originally generated by the Australian Nuclear Science Organisation and sent to France in 2001 for reprocessing. The BBC Shanghai has been blacklisted due to its record.

A massive warehouse between two of the most crime-filled areas in the city of Chicago, equipped with floodlights, cameras, razor-wire – this near-paramilitary wing of the government – the demographics speak for themselves.

China is making a new 5-Year Plan — and it will decide where the global economy will go next

Over the last 5 years, China has promised to deliver growth of around 7%. But growth has slowed and many suspect that China’s self-reported GDP numbers are lies. China’s real growth rate may be as low as 3%.

In the past, people were in rural communities. They could grow food. They had real communities. They also had self-control and a conception of morality. Today, if the supply lines go down, you are stuck in a house you can’t heat surrounded by millions of FDA-approved drug addicts who are going psycho because they have run out of juice and people who would murder their own grandmother to get a cut-price iPhone.

After armed conflict destabilized Aleppo gene bank, scientists withdraw seeds from Arctic repository in order to safeguard critical research. ICARDA managed to move its headquarters from Syria in the early days of the war, while some of its workers remained at the gene bank in Aleppo in an attempt to save the collection.

The terms of the proposed TPP trade treaty with Asian countries won’t be made public until the treaty has already been in force for at least four years. The terms of the proposed TISA (Trade In Services Agreement) with 52 nations won’t be made public until at least five years. The proposed TTIP treaty with European countries has been so successfully hidden, that even the number of years it will be kept from the public isn’t yet known. All in secret, until too late for the public to do anything.

Genetically modified crops and chemically washed beef carcasses were being allowed into the EU.

Feeding people will require cleaner energy, smarter farming and women’s rights, but also a “fundamental cultural change,” Ehrlich said a good start in addressing population growth would be full women’s rights, including access to contraceptives and abortions. For agriculture, it’s a “big shift” toward organic farming, getting rid of large industrial farms that rely on pesticides.